India and Bhutan Renewed Memorandum of Understanding on Electoral Cooperation

India and Bhutan signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a period of five years to facilitate exchange of knowledge and experience, information, material, expertise and technical knowhow, training of personnel and development of human resources in electoral matters and also for taking up joint initiatives and providing assistance to others.  The MoU was signed during the visit of Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi to Bhutan on 16-18 September 2011.

The Chief Election Commissioner of India offered to create a SAARC Resource Centre at the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management for preserving and nurturing election related documentation in relation to SAARC countries. The Chief Election Commissioner of Bhutan welcomed the idea and presented the first set of documents for this Resource Centre.

The Chief Election Commissioner of Bhutan asked for training of their newly inducted officers through the IIDEM platform in India. Quraishi agreed to that and offered to train Bhutanese election officials during the process of forthcoming State elections.